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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: ksh 1, perl 2 - ksh or perl for scripting?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.201505.8229@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 20:15:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.235815.21034@netlabs.com>, lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) writes:
- | In article <1992Dec23.160443.13103@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- | : This is particularly true of
- | : really clever perl programmers I have known, who seem to feel the need
- | : to write "impressive" code instead of code which just works.
- |
- | You can prove anything by counting idiots.
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- I don't think it's true that all good perl programmers are idiots.
- They tend to be a bit strange, I agree...
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- This problem appears in most languages in which there is more than one
- reasonable way to solve a problem. Programmers get thinking about the
- code and decide they could do it a bit {faster,smaller,better,cleaner}
- and go rewrite the code.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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